... TO CORRESPONDENTS. Lasso will perceive that other champions have entered the cited m 'S ^etter *s vu^Sar' abusive, and sopfa'sti- Sigma is quite right-the course he alludes to has been de- termined on. The price Jtf the MERLIN is this day, and henceforth, FOUR- PENCE HALFPENNY. The Ship ISAAC HICKS, advertised in our first page to sail for the United States on the 19th instant, will not sail ...

... On Saturday an unfortunate female, of the lowest class, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having run away with a coat and waistcoat of a gentleman who was sta- ted to be the brother of a Member of Parliament. The facts were rather odd, as was the complainant himself, who is an elderly, stout, sad-looking?person, and who appeared in a coat and waistcoat which had evidentty been ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-The letter I addressed you under the signature of candor, though for some time unavoidably delayed, at length appeared in your columns, and seems to havi aiousad the bile of several of your readers no less than three doughty champions having appeared two under real, one under false rolouts, in the lists of controversy, or I sholild rather say of ...

... [The incident that constitutes this mystery happened just as I relate it. The writer can hurt no one by its recital, for those whose feelings might have been pained by the allu- sion, are no more.] In the summer of 1816 the inhabitants of the little village of were considerably excited by an occurrence of more than common mystery, which for a time roused their feelings to a pitch of ...

... 1:7 TO MAYFIELD MANOR. See::s—A turnpike road, with a hedge on each side, a beer- shop at every hundred yards, and a finger-post in the corner. Time—Peep-o'-day on the first of September. Dram. Pers.—I and my fiiend, Jack Manton.jutayed in full shooting costume, with Ponto, a favourite pointer, at our heels. Then The Flying Mercury stage-coach, with her cargo of men, women, and children, bags, ...

... THURSDAY, JUNE 9.—(Concluded from our last.)-Lord John Russell then proceeded to review in detail the amend- ments of the Lords. He said, that while the bill of the House of Lords professed to abolish and put an end to corporations, great care had been taken in it to preserve for their natural lives all the old officers of the corporations in their respective places. Thus the Lords' bill was, ...

... Beneath a cypress spreading tree, A little infant sat and played,- Full many a grave was round the child. A h' S^e sa*' anc^ Played> and smiled, And turned at times her radient eye Upon the clear and azure sky «« T1S questioned, often sighed, •They lie together, side by side. And who, my pretty child, I said, Who lie together little maid 1 Hast thou two lovely sisters dear, In blooming ...

... COUNTRY MARKETS. Monmouth, Sat it niay, Oct . ...

... SPAIN. HEAD-QUARTERS, ST. SEBASTIAN, APRIL 22.—The 6th and 3d regiments, with the Lieutenant-general and his staff, disembarked here at eight o'clock this morning. nine days after leaving Vittoria, including three days' sojourn at Santander. The RiBes, under Colonel de llottenberg, vill arrive to-morrow; and in the course of two days more the whole force of the Legion will be concentrated here ...

... division, arose on the subject of the Metropolitan Suspension Bridge. The majority for the further consideration of the report was 79. Mr. Gully begged to call the attention of the house to a subject that had occurred some time since with respect to the challenge thrown out by the hon. member for Dublin to the hon. and learned member for Bradfoid. He accused the hon. member of having paid £20 ...

... [jTfrlE MElRlLmRljfl Ketuport, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1U36. we are without any foreign arrivals of importance since our last. The extent of the disasters which awaited the French in their unfortunate expedition to Constan- tine is becoming more generally known, as government Cannot prevent the survivors from writing to their friends. Never was discomfiture more complete; the weather was ...

... The following account of the severe earthquake in Chili last February is abridged from Professor Silliman's American Journal of Science — One of the most terrific and destructive convulsions with which this devoted country has ever been visited by, com- menced on the 20th February, 1835, occasioned by the irrup- tion of the volcano of Aupico, in about the latitude of Con. ception, and about ...